How to Vegan Delicious Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling

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Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling. Dark Chocolate Cake with Fresh Strawberry Buttercream. Place a cake layer on serving platter. Repeat with remaining cake layers and frosting..

Using a piping bag, pipe a thick ring of frosting around the inside of the bottom cake.

Fill in the ring with the cooled strawberry filling, smoothing it out evenly.

Top the strawberry filling with ⅛ cup of chocolate ganache.

You can cook Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling using 22 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling

You need of For Dark Chocolate Cake.
You need 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.
Prepare 3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, I used Hersheys special dark.
Prepare 11/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
Prepare 1/2 of teaspoin salt.
It’s 2 of ups granulated sugar.
It’s 2 of large eggs.
Prepare 1 cup of milk.
Prepare 1/2 cup of canola oil.
You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Prepare 1 cup of brewed coffee at room temperature.
You need of For Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling.
It’s 8 ounces of cream cheese, at room temperature.
You need 8 ounces of marscapone chee, at room temperature.
You need 4 ounces of (1 stick), salted butter, at room temperature.
It’s 1 cup of fresh strawberries.
It’s 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Prepare 4 cups of confectioner's sugar.
Prepare of Garnish.
It’s as needed of pink sprinkles,.
Prepare 6 of Godiva Strawberry Cheesecake truffle candies, halved.
You need as needed of fresh strawberries.

Add the top layer of cake and gently push it down.

Great recipe for Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling.

This is a very moist dark chocolate cake filled and frosted with a creamy not to sweet fresh strawberry cream.

Its Ike a cake version of a chocolate covered strawberry!

Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling step by step

Preheat oven to 375. Spray 3 - 8 inch cake pans well with bakers spray.
In a bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder,baking powder and salt and sugar.
In another bowl whisk the eggs with the milk,canola oil and vanilla, beat into flour mixture until smooth.
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Slowly beat in coffee until smooth batter will be very thin..
Pour into prepared pans and bake 22 to 25 minutes until a toothpick comes out just clean. Cool 15 minutes in pan then run a thin knife around edges of cake to unstick any edges of cake and remove from pan to cool completely.
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Make Strawberry Filling and Frosting.
Puree strawberries in a food processor and set adide.
Beat together in a large bowl until smooth, cream cheese, marscapone cheese, butter and vanilla.
Beat in strawberry puree.
Slowly beat in confectioners sugar until it is a nice spreading consistancy, add drops of red food color only if you want it pinker. Refrigerate if frosting seems soft to firm it up for about 1 hour for easier spreading.
Assemble Cake.
Place 1 cake layer bottom up on serving plate add some Strawberry filling.
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Add second layer, bottom side up.
Add more fillinhg.
Add third layer, bottom up.
Frost entire cake and decorate with sprinkles, Godiva Strawberry Cheesecaketruffles, halved and fresh strawberries.
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Use a small layer of frosting on the bottom of each cake layer, just to prevent any soggy cake layers.

Assemble the cakes by adding a nice layer of strawberry filling and repeat.

My husband thought I put too much as I had some challenges getting the frosting not to mix with the strawberry filling.

Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of a mixer.

Top with second cake, rounded side up.